The family of Misty Holt-Singh, the married mother of two killed Wednesday in a getaway shootout between gang banger bank robbers and police, broke its silence in a Friday press conference.

Husband Paul Singh fought back tears while he was flanked by daughter Mia on the right and son Paul Jr. on the left, told reporters gathered outside the Stockton (CA) Police Department that his family will always miss her.

‘What happened to Misty is a nightmare,’ Paul Singh said. ‘It’s something I would never want to happen to anybody.’

Misty Holt-Singh was one of three
hostages taken when a trio of Norteno street gang members armed to the
teeth stormed a Stockton bank earlier this week.

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Devastated: Misty Holt-Singh's grieving family - (from left to right) daughter Mia, husband Paul and son Paul Jr. - spoke publicly Friday for the first time since her death

The other two – another customer and a bank employee – were shot and tossed out of the getaway vehicle. They somehow survived, but Holt-Singh did not.

Paul Singh said called his wife a ‘caring [and] loving’ mother.

‘She would never do for her, it was always for us,’ he continued. ‘That’s what makes it so difficult for us. She was our rock. I just want to make sure her story is told.’

Mia said very little, but appeared to be on the verge of crying several times during the press conference. The 12-year-old stayed behind in her mother’s car while she went to the bank, the decision likely saved the young girl’s life.

‘I love you mom,’ the devastated child said.

But 19-year-old son Paul Jr did speak, and his words were heart breaking.

‘I
don't want to think what is going on is true,’ he said. ‘I wake up and
I'm hoping, I'm hoping that it's a dream and that it's a dream and that
my mom's going to be there. But she's not.’

The family also announced they have opened their own invesitgation into the circumstances surrounding Holt-Singh's death.

They were seeking documents, dispatch logs, video and other evidence police gathered during and after the violence,' according to family attorney Greg Bentley. Also wanted are guidelines and protocols for high-speed pursuits and use of deadly force as well as video taken by witnesses.

Authorities still haven't concluded their own investigation.

'We don't even know who fired what, how many weapons were fired,' said San Joaquin County Deputy District Attorney Robert Himelblau.

'We haven't figured out which bad guy was firing which weapon... which bullets hit who,' he added.

Beloved wife and mother Misty Holt-Singh was killed when she was caught in the crossfire of a shootout between the bank robbers who took her hostage and the Stockton police

Shattered: Dawn Holt, center, speaks during the family's news conference on Friday, July 18, 2014, with the support of Holt-Singh's husband Paul Singh, left, and son Paul Jr

Misty Holt-Singh’s sister Dawn Holt thanked the community for its outpouring of support and for giving the family room to grieve, but then began to cry as she also surprisingly asked for the same treatment to be afforded her sister’s killers’ families.

‘Let's respect the robbers' families’ grief as well,’ said Holt ‘They've lost someone they love too.’

The press conference came on the dame day the San Joaquin coroner identified the two suspects killed in the wild shootout that unfolded during a high-speed chase through the suburban Oakland city.

Gilbert Renteria Jr., 30, and Alex Gregory Martinez, 27, have been identified as the two dead bank robbers.

Martinez's father claimed to 'hold no animosity or blame the Stockton Police Department for behaving the way they did.

'We believe that given the circumstances the department behaved in a manner that was appropriate,' the grieving father said.

He also offered condolences to the family of Holt-Singh.

'We're so, so sorry that this happened. I wish I could take away their pain.'

Suspect Jaime Ramos, 19, was taken into custody after using Holt-Singh as a human shield and faces several charges related to the robbery, attempted getaway and her death.

An autopsy will determine if the shots that killed Holt-Singh came from police or the gunmen.

It's believed Holt-Singh was being used as a human shield during the shoot-out

This image provided by the Stockton Police Department shows a condolence letter written for Misty Holt-Singh

IT TOOK 90 MINUTES FOR THIS BANK-ROBBERY-GONE-WRONG TO LEAVE THREE DEAD

2 P.M. - Three armed men enter a Bank of the West branch in Hammer Lane and Thornton Road
in north Stockton, Cali.

2:11 p.m. - A bank guard alerts police before being restrained

2:12 p.m. - Police arrive on the scene

2:16 p.m. - The thieves make off with three hostages in a bank employees green SUV. They make it 14 blocks before shooting one.

2:28 p.m. - The thieves pull off the highway in an attempt to ambush pursuing officers but are foiled when authorities spot them

3:16 p.m. - They shoot the second hostage

3:18 p.m. - Police are able to shoot out the SUV's tires bringing it to a halt in the middle of an intersection

3:20 - The thieves exit the SUV using hostage Misty Holt-Singh as a human shield. She's killed in the crossfire along with two of the thieves.

The robbers are believed by officials to be members of the violent Norteno street gang, Stockton Police Chief Eric Jones said during a Thursday press briefing.

Police arrived on the scene in less than a minute after the robbers took the three female hostages
from the building at gunpoint, before stealing one of their SUVs and speeding away.

Holt-SIngh's 12-year-old daughter was left left stranded at the bank as her mother was taken hostage and was fortunately unharmed - but now is without a mother, according to CBS Sacramento.

Reports have suggested Holt-Sing may have been killed by police fire, and Jones was unable to confirm during the Thursday press briefing whose gunfire killed the woman, according to the Los Angeles Times.

A MailOnline message left late Thursday night with Stockton Police seeking further information was not immediately returned.

The other two hostages had far different outcomes.

The thieves only went 14 blocks before shooting one of the hostages who was then either pushed from the truck or jumped. Doctors say her injuries are not life threatening.

For the next 45 minutes, the robbers
led dozens of police cars on a chase across highways and city streets,
according to Stockton police Officer Joe Silva.

The robbers not only had assault rifles but extra magazines taped or strapped to their bodies. The gunfire was unrelenting, police said. Officers had no choice but to engage the suspects.

Police lost the SUV at approximately 2:28 p.m. as it pulled off the highway. However, rather than using the advantage to speed away the thieves stopped in position to ambush the police they knew were just seconds away.

Luckily for authorities, another officer saw them from another angle and warned the pursuing officers.

14 police cars were shot during the pursuit before the SUV's tires could be shot out

Pictured here with her family, Holt-Singh reportedly was forced to leave her 12-year-old daughter behind alone in the bank as she was taken hostage

The suspects fired AK-47-style rifles from the windows of their SUV during the deadly pursuit

Gang banger: The only surviving suspect has been identified as 19-year-old Jaime Ramos, a known member of the Nortenos

A second hostage was shot at 3:16
p.m., shortly before she either jumped from the car or was pushed. She
is expected to survive, according to the Times.

Police were able to shoot out the SUV's tires two minutes later and bring it to a halt in the middle of an intersection.

They used Holt-Singh, their final hostage, as a human shield in a final shootout. She was tragically killed in the crossfire.

'These
suspects wanted no part of a peaceful resolution,' said Jones.

'It was such a chaotic ... fluid
situation, really one of the most dangerous, tense situations that a
police officer could go through,' he continued.

'The firing never stopped. They were
trying to kill (the officers), no doubt. There was a lot on the line and
the officers responded appropriately.'

One
suspect was declared dead at the scene, and a second died at a local hospital, authorities said.

Violent: An American hostage has been killed and two others injured after three armed men robbed a bank and led police on a high-speed chase. Above, two of the hostages was thrown from this SUV (pictured) in the chase

Damaged: The three armed men were spotted arriving at a Bank of the West branch in Hammer Lane and Thornton Road in north Stockton, California, at 2pm yesterday. Above, the bullet-riddled SUV after the chase

Nortenos: Members of the violent street gang are shown wearing red and flashing gang signs

The Nortenos are a notoriously-violent
street gang ravaging parts of California as they wage war with rival
gangs, especially the Surenos.

Norteno is Spanish for "northerner,' and sureno is Spanish for 'Southerner.'

Both rival groups were born in the California prison system during the 1980s and 1990s.

Branches of Surenos include the infamous MS-13, which has been referred to by authorities in the past as the world's most dangerous street gang.

Members
are predominantly Mexican and make money through drug sales and human
trafficking, but the bulk of their profits come from selling drugs.

They
often are heavily-tattooed with several gang symbols including the
number 14, which represents the letter 'n' being the fourteenth in the
alphabet.

Nortenos also often wear the color red and are known to have a heavy presence in the Bay Area.'

A guard at this Stockton bank managed to alert police before he was tied down

Armed response: Stockton police officers are pictured at the scene where the SUV was stopped yesterday

Suspect: A male suspect is accompanied by police as he is led to hospital following the high-speed chase

Robbery: The three men allegedly robbed this Bank of the West branch in Hammer Lane and Thornton Road

The teen was booked into San Joaquin County Jail on suspicion of
homicide, kidnapping, robbery and attempted murder.

In total, the robbers shot 14 police
cars and a still undetermined number of homes during the chase.

Upon learning of her death, Holt-Singh's friends and family took to her Facebook page to memorialize her.

'Misty, you are an awesome woman & my heart goes out to you and your family,' read one memorial.

'I can't believe this' wrote another. 'RIP Misty.'

'This is not something you want to hear in the middle of the day,' brother-in-law Ajit Singh told reporters. 'You
don’t wake up or go to your job thinking something like this is going
to happen to you.

Another hostage has been identified by family friends as bank employee Kelly Huber. The SUV used in the chase was a Ford Explorer registered to her, authorities said.

Scene: Today, witnesses said the final shoot-out had resembled a warzone. Above, police at the scene

'Yeah, my heart kind of dropped. I am concerned,' said neighbor Amber Harbor. 'I want to know what
happened and if she was involved and if she is OK. I just hope that
everything is OK with her.'

Today, witnesses said the final shoot-out had resembled a war zone.

'It sounded like five minutes of straight gunfire,' witness Sam York told KCRA-TV. 'It seemed like it wasn't real.'

Jose Maldonado, who said he saw the robbers taking the women out of the bank, said the men had rifles that looked like AK-47s slung over their shoulders.

He added that they had also tied up a bank security guard, and didn't seem to care that there were police all around.

'They were not afraid. They weren't going to take no for an answer. These poor women, they were screaming, they were so distraught, so scared,' he said.

The bank declined in a statement to provide information about the victims.

'This is a tragic incident and we are focused on supporting our customers and employees.'